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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 1d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 14d

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 18d

This is bonkers - in popular energy-related areas, 10 -15% of the TOTAL papers are reviews or perspectives @pubs.acs.org #ACSEnergyLetters

Editorial: Should You Really be Writing A(nother) Review Manuscript?
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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S.T. Bikes KC 🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎 @stbikeskc.bsky.social · 22d

What's sad about this is that Disney recently produced Andor, which may be the best written show about fighting fascism and what happens when you don't, and then failed to understand their own content by capitulating to said fascist!

Irony is dead!

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Nancy H @nancyhilde.bsky.social · 22d

Andor is an excellent watch.

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 22d

DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism

ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism

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Fred Kennedy @fearlessfred.bsky.social · 22d

There is no more timely show than Andor.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 22d

I would like to invite the CEO of Disney to take some time off and watch a television series titled “Andor”.

I can’t remember who made it, but it’s really good and he needs to understand its message.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23d

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25d

Science denial, whether it’s climate change or efficacy of vaccines, hurts us all.

Climate impacts are real — denying this is self-defeating

The US administration is attempting to undermine efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. It will ultimately leave that country, and the world, worse off.

www.nature.com

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · Sep 10

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · Sep 10

There was a school shooting today. Gun safety laws are needed!

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/10/e...

At least 3 injured in shooting at Evergreen High School

At least three people from Evergreen High School are in critical condition after a shooting involving and “active assailant,” Jefferson County officials said.

www.denverpost.com

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m sure this will be fine.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Only federal agency that investigates chemical disasters faces shutdown under Trump

The U.S. Chemical Safety Hazard and Investigation Board, or CSB, investigates root causes of serious chemical accidents and makes recommendations for preventing similar events. The Trump administratio...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 28

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report.
This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Example: refuting one sentence.

DOE CWG STATEMENT (second paragraph of section 2.1.1, page 3): “Piao et al. (2020) noted
that greening was even observable in the Arctic.”
COMMENT: This statement implies that the Arctic greening signal was caused by elevated CO2
,
however that is not the scientific consensus. Piao et al. (2020) attribute the greening trend in the
Arctic predominantly to growing season length driven by warmer temperatures (see also Y.
Zhang et al., 2022). Piao et al. (2020) also note that this positive impact of increasing
temperatures appears to have weakened over the past four decades, “suggesting a possible
saturation of future greening in response to warmer temperature” (see also comment on
greenness trends related to Section 2.1.1, first sentence of Page 4). It is also important to put
Arctic greening more broadly into the context of the carbon cycle and other impacts. While
above-ground plants may have displayed more leaf area over the past decades, rising
temperatures also thaw permafrost and drive accelerated decomposition in highly carbon rich
soils (Turetsky et al., 2020), a process which is expected to accelerate as climate continues to
warm (Miner et al., 2022). Thus even with Arctic greening, high latitude terrestrial systems may
become net carbon sources to the atmosphere, causing an amplifying feedback (Braghiere et
al., 2023). Other risks to the Arctic linked to higher CO2

levels and rising temperatures are not
mentioned in this report (Virkkala et al., 2025). The Arctic is warming at a rate of 2 to 3 times the
global average, leading to thawing of permanently frozen soils (permafrost), with downstream
impacts including loss of structural support for buildings and subsidence, threatening
communities, roads, runways, and other assets across Alaska (Manos et al., 2025; University of
Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering US Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District
& Laboratory, 2019).

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's hard to write when you have songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters stuck in your head.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 13

For those following the DOE climate report, DOE is getting sued because they didn't follow the relevant laws.

www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel...

EDF, UCS File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Secret Convening of Climate Skeptics, Use of Their Hidden “Science” Report in Attempt to Overturn Endangerment Finding

Two leading science and environment groups are going to court to challenge the Trump administration’s use of a secretively convened group of climate skeptics to prepare a now widely disparaged repor...

www.webwire.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 11

With Trump set to use crime as a fake justification to threaten DC today, media coverage should make one thing clear: At this point his pattern of manufacturing pretexts for militarizing domestic law enforcement has become undeniable. Some thoughts on that here:

newrepublic.com/article/1987...

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · Aug 8

If institutions pay, they will just keeping asking for more.

Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · Aug 8

$200 million from Columbia
$500 million from Harvard
$1 BILLION from UCLA?!

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · Aug 8

The media needs to stop calling these “settlements.” They are extortion payments. UCLA did not do any damage to the federal government it doesn’t have to “settle” shit.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just to give the TL;DR on this one:

*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.

And that's saying a lot.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...